Fast food is such a convenience that due to saving time, we forget the cost of almost everything else that we pay due to eating it. It does taste delicious and you don’t need to work to get it either but is it healthy? Is it worth putting your health at stake? No, absolutely not. There are many reasons behind this stringent opinion on the topic.

Fat
Despite our love for fast food, we still always want to maintain our physique but this is not what really happens. We eat and get fat. What we must know here is that this obesity is the cause of many heart diseases. Now it is upon us to decide whether we choose taste and convenience or a healthy long life.

Potential Diseases
Heart disease is just to begin with, the list of potential disease just because of fast food goes on and on. Diabetes is on the list of those many diseases that a person catches due to over eating fast food. The fat, calories and sodium composition of fast food can cause liver disease, arthritis, sleeping disorders and some kinds of cancer too. Yes, it is scary and yet we go for that timely taste instead of having a long term approach toward our body, fitness and life. That’s why it’s vital to keep the cons of eating fast food in mind at all times.

Nutritional Composition
If you ever check the percentage of vitamins, proteins or any other nutrient in a fast food meal, you will find the percentages to be very low. The only major constituent of your fast food is calories. Yes, calories are also a requirement of the human body but it does not mean that you over consume them. The same calories also cause many problems in the same body if they are not controlled. You do not gain any energy out of those meals. It does not give you any boost or any encouragement. It just feeds you for the moment and fills your stomach up.

Packaging
It is not just the food that can harm you in multiple ways. Even packaging is capable of giving you cancer if you stay exposed to it for too long. The packaging material used for fast food contains a chemical which resists oil or water. In this way, the oil or water from your food is not absorbed in the packaging and you believe your food to be fresh. However, the adverse effect of that chemical is bad enough to keep you from going for that type of food altogether. The name of that chemical is perfluoroalkyls and it is actually toxic to human beings.

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